Battle

"Lotus-Gathering Flame Dragon!" Norton shouted.

Light began to radiate from his body. He spread his wings and clasped his arms together.

Suddenly, a roar came from the heavens!

It made everyone present's ears go numb, and they instinctively covered them.

A Flame Dragon several hundred meters long slowly emerged from beneath the flaming halo, wandering through the skies.

Kizaru looked up at the sky, disbelief in his eyes. His mouth opened and closed, as though he did not know what to say.

He had long known that the two youths from Sabaody Archipelago would become very powerful in the future.

But this kind of power seemed to have exceeded his expectations.

As the Flame Dragon fully emerged, the temperature of the entire area abruptly soared.

The nearby Marine soldiers had no choice but to protect themselves with Armament Haki, yet even so, they could barely endure it.

"Retreat!" someone shouted.

The soldiers on both sides finally realized something was wrong and retreated from the battlefield like a receding tide.

"Yasakani Sacred Jewel!"

Kizaru turned his body into particles of light and, in the blink of an eye, arrived in midair.

The biting wind made his cloak rustle. Before the Flame Dragon, his figure seemed somewhat frail.

Looking at Norton's casual smile, he suddenly felt dazed, and the movement of his hand stalled.

It was not because Norton was a member of the Lunarian Tribe, but because Kizaru vaguely sensed an aura on him that reminded him of his younger self.

"Youth is wonderful..." he sighed.

Then his movements became sharp again, and countless destructive points of light shot toward the Flame Dragon.

At this moment, the battle reached a stalemate. The Yasakani Sacred Jewel fell like raindrops, gradually gathering into a wall as large as a city wall, leaving the